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Just before Shawn Howell went to Iraq, he and his wife felt ready to buy a bigger house for their family. But when Shawn came home, the interest cap went off and when his ARM, or adjustable rate mortgage, got 'adjusted', his payment increased. Even with Shawn working two jobs and his wife running a home business, they simply couldn't make the payments. To avoid eviction, Shawn and his family left right before the sheriff's sale. Now they're living in a small mobile home. Also on the show: why one man has been called anti-American, accused of being pro-terrorist, and damned to hell.

War

When Jaeson Parsons went to Iraq as a medic, he was based in a particularly dangerous place in the desert. Inside a building, he stumbled on some graffiti - an image of a lighthouse that another American soldier left on a concrete wall.

History

In the early morning hours of August 22, 1971, Father Michael Doyle and 27 other mostly Catholic priests and lay people were caught destroying draft records inside the federal courthouse in Camden, N.J. It was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience to protest what Father Doyle and the others considered the immoral war in Vietnam. Also in this episode: Grandma gets the lead out.

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Scott Smiley had just graduated from West Point when he married his high school sweetheart, Tiffany, in 2003. Eight months later he was sent to Iraq, where he was injured by a suicide car bomb. It wasn't until he was back at Walter Reed that Scott learned he had been permanently blinded. Scott is still serving in the military, and this summer, the Army Times selected Scott as its 2007 Soldier of the Year.

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In 1945, Alfred Klinger was just 17, a first-generation American who wanted to serve his country and in the process, feel something like a hero. He fought and was wounded in World War II. Fifty-nine years later, Alfred got the idea to return to the place where he'd lost his friends.

Life

Andrea Richardson Stowers was 7 years old when her father Dale left on a Cold War military mission from which he never returned. Dale’s work was classified, so Andrea never found out how he died. Andrea’s mother believed it was a government cover-up and convinced herself that Dale was still alive.

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Pat Harris served in the first Gulf War and came home with classic signs of PTSD. She would crack the windows to find enemies and shop online to avoid the supermarket meat aisle. But while Pat was gone, her then 9-year-old daughter Patricia was going through trauma as well.

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Robin Sagadraca's father Bob was buried Thursday in Arlington National Cemetery. A member of the "Greatest Generation," the elder Sagadraca never spoke much about his wartime experiences in the Army. But the few stories that Robin and his son Ross have heard were vivid. There was the time Grandpa got shot in the head, and the time he refused the Purple Heart.

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Nearly 400,000 members of the U.S. military watched nuclear detonations after World War II. They were told that the radiation was minimal and that they were far enough away from the blasts so they wouldn't be harmed. Bob Greenwald was one of those men. Also in this episode: a dream deferred.